Means for securing and adjusting guard-rails.



PATENTED JUNE 6, 1905.

W. WHARTON, J3. MEANS FOR SECURING AND ADJUSTING GUARD RAILS.

APPLICATION FILED APE. 3,1905.

No, 791,965, Patented June 6, 1905.

UNiirnn STATES ATENT FFICE.

\VILLIAM IVHARTON, JR, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO I VILLIAM WHARTON, JR, & COMPANY, INCORPORATED, OF PHILA- DELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

MEANS FOR SECURING AND ADJUSTING GUARD-RAILS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 791,965, dated n 6, 1905.

Application filed April 3, 1905. Serial No. 253,694-

107w"?! 7'15 U 0071/0677 main rail, and, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3,

Boitknown that], IVILLIAM VVHARTON, Jr., the springs may be of the coiled type. A O acitizenof the United States, residing in Philbolt (Z is passed through holes in the webs of adelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain the main rail and guard-rail as well as through 5 Improvements in Means for Securing and Adthe center of the spring. This bolt has a head justing Guard-Rails, of which the following at one end and is threaded at the opposite end is a specification. for a nut cl, which in the present instance is The object 01 my invention is to provide locked by means of a lock-washer (2Z It will means for securingaguard-railand for quickly be understood that any suitable nut-lock may IO and readily adjusting it toward or from the be used without departing from my invention.

main rail of a railway-track whenever it is It will be seen that the spring keeps the guarddesirable to do so. This object I attain in the rail apart from the main rail; but when it is following manner, reference being had to the desired to reduce the width of the throat beaccompanying drawings, in whicl tween the two rails all that is necessary is to 5 Figure I is a plan view of a main or track screw up the nut, causing the bolt to draw the rail and a guard-rail, illustrating my invenguard-rail toward the main rail against the tion where the track is straight. Fig. 2 is a pressure of the spring until the throat is nar- 5 plan view showing my invention as applied rowed to the desired width. Guard-rails are to a guard-rail and a main rail upon a curve. of suflicient length to use a construction simi- 20 Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view on the lar to Fig. 1, as the Wear upon the guard-rail line 3 3, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a side view of Fig. is not at the flaring ends, but at points inter- 3. Figs. 5 and 6 are views of modifications mediate of the ends. Consequently the ends 7 of the invention. can be fixed and the central portion of the A is a main or track rail of the railwayguard-rail can be flexed by drawing upon the 2 5 track, and B is the guard-rail. This guardbolts, the necessary adjustment being comrail is bent at each end, so as to form aflaring paratively slight. throat for the easy entrance and passage of My invention is especially applicable for use the flange of a car-wheel. The guard-rail is on curved tracks, where a guard-rail is used, spaced at such a distance from the main rail as shown in Fig. 2. Some of the curves upon 3 as to limit the lateral movement of the wheels which guard-rails are required are very long; upon the main rail, and .it is essential as the but by my invention I am enabled quickly side of the guard-rail becomes worn away to and cheaply to take up the wear at any point 0 adjust it from time to time in respect to the or throughout the length of the guard-rail. main rail in order to maintain its efficiency. In Fig. 5 I have shown a flat spring D in- 35 As shown in Fig. l, I mount between the stead of acoiled spring. In this instance the main rail and the guard-rail, near each end bolt passes through the webs of the rails and of the latter, where there is practically no through the flat spring. wear on account of the flaring throat, a rigid In Fig. 6 I have shown a flat spring mountspacing-block C. These rigid spacing-blocks ed between the guard-rail and the main rail,

4 are not adjustable, and transverse bolts (Z are with a clamp E extending under the two rails passed through the webs of the main rail and and holding them together, the clamp being guard-rail, as well as through openings in the adjusted by means of a wedge e. A coiled blocks, and are held in place by nuts provided spring may be used in this case in place of a with suitable locks. flat spring, if desired, and in some instances 45 At proper intervening distances between in place of a metallic spring a rubber block the rigid end spacing blocks C O, I mount may be used. In fact, any spring may be springs D, which are sufficiently heavy and used which will tend to keep the guard-rail 9 Strong to force the guard-rail away from the apart from the main rail and will allow for the adjustment of the guard-rail toward the main rail.

I claim as my invention-- 1. The combination of a main rail, a guardrail, a spring interposed between the main rail and the guard-rail, and means for drawing the guard-rail toward the main rail, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a main rail, a guardrail, a spring interposed between the main rail and the guard-rail, a bolt extending through the two rails, and means for adjusting the bolt to move the guard-rail toward the main rail against the pressure of the spring, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a main rail, a guardrail, aspring interposed between the two rails, and means for preventing the guard-rail from moving away from the main rail, substantially as described.

4:. The combination of a main rail, a guardrail, a coiled spring interposed between the two rails, a headed bolt extending through the webs of the two rails and through the center of the coiled spring, and a nut on the bolt, substantially as described.

5. The combination of a main rail, a guardrail, a fixed spacing-block between the main rail and the guard-rail near the end of the latter, one or more springs mounted between the body of the guard-rail and the main rail, and means for adjusting the guard-rail toward the main rail at the springs, substantially as described.

6. The combination of a main rail, a guardrail, a fixed spacing-bloch mounted between the main rail and the guard-rail near each end of the latter, one or more springs mounted between the guard-rail and the main rail intermediate of the fixed spacing-blocks, and means for adjusting the guard-rail toward the main rail and looking it in its adjusted position, substantially as described.

7. Thecombination of a main rail, a guardrail, a fixed spacing-block between the main rail and the guard-rail near each end of the latter, bolts securing the guard-rail and the fixed spacing-blocks to the main rail, a coiled spring or springs mounted between the main rail and guard-rail intermediate of the blocks, and a bolt extending through the webs of the rails and through the coiled spring, substan tially as described.

1n testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WVILLIAM \VHARTON, JR.

Nitnesses:

WILL. A. BARR, \VM. E. SiiUrn. 

